The Love Letters of a Chinese Lady – Elizabeth Cooper (1919)

S$76.00

The Love Letters of a Chinese Lady – Elizabeth Cooper (1919)

S$76.00

Title: The Love Letters of a Chinese Lady

Author: Elizabeth Cooper

Publisher: T. N. Foulis, Edinburgh, 1919.

Condition: Hardcover, decorative cloth. Good. Deckle edges. Some foxing. Binding tight, text unmarked. One tipped-in colour plate, and 14 black and white plates. 78pp. 8.5″ by 7″.

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From the preface:

…I hope that these letters, which were shown me by the writer’s husband many years after they were written, will give a faint idea of the life of a Chinese lady. They were written by Kwei-li, the wife of a very high Chinese official, to her husband when he accompanied his mater, Prince Chung, on this trip around the world.

She was the daughter of a viceroy of Chih-li, a man most advanced for his time, who was one of the forerunners of the present educational movement in China, a movement which has caused her youth to rise and demand Western methods and Western enterprise in place of the obsolete traditions and customs of their ancestors.